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    Before looking I remembered when this happened and thought, yeah, they shouldn’t have caved and cut Finn out. Then I looked. Those bastards dropped Chewie from the poster???

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      Yeah but presumably they watch the film, so what’s the point in changing the poster

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        Once they bought the tickets, Disney doesn’t care if they hate the characters. They got the money. They don’t need people to enjoy the film or the characters. They just need tickets sold.

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      There are a bunch of English posters without his face as well.

      The west prioritises showing the faces of actors and China apparently doesn’t or they do with stars that are known in China.

      If he was a nobody in the USA it’s much more likely that he would have a mask.

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    Companies don’t get enough flak for pandering whoever lines their pockets.

    It happens to be popular today in North America to appear inclusive and progressive and they feign it and it somehow works.

    These companies don’t give a shit about you or your issues. They just want to cash out on you thinking that they do (and you thinking that they deserve your support).

    (And yes, I get it, any support is good support) just keep in mind that these companies care more about the money and will always pander to their audience.

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      The boys at Red Letter Media coined a term for this: “Passive Progressive”. Hits the nail on the head for me!

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    Besides that being a racist change, sm I the only one who despises movie posters with dozens of people looking in random directions? Can we just have nice artistic posters, please?

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      What would you say if I told you they are artistic, it’s just not a style you like

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      They do make the kind of posters you like you just don’t see them outside of promotional material.

      The reason being is that the many faces orange blue posters literally are gaming (most people’s) brains into engaging with the poster.

      Humans like faces and are drawn to them.

      That being said, I’ve seen some really nice dune posters where it’s like a backdrop of the desert with the mc and lots of negative space

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        Yes, love those posters. And with dune, for example, they’re much more prominent. You’ll really find that one. For Disney stuff? No chance.

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    To be fair, Finn is a throwaway character despite decent acting. Not important to the plot really at all. The same can be said for most of the characters in the movie.

    Moreover, the whole movie is something that should be thrown away, but not forgotten. It needs to be archived as an entry in the museum of the failures of Disney.

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      John Boyega was robbed. He was excellent in TFA and his character was actually interesting. Then Disney fucked him over.

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        Ehhhh… He goes from being shellshocked about his fellow soldier dying to whooping and cheering about murdering his former friends so fast it made my head spin.

        Boyega was robbed, but they didn’t use him very well even in TFA, in my opinion.

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      He wasn’t such a background character in The Force Awakens, but ohhhhh boy did he get shafted in the next two!

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      He could have mattered but the directors decided to make him comic relief and otherwise sideline him for… reasons. us-foreign-policy

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      It was an alright to very mediocre set of movies that people feel way too many emotions about.

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    Disney is racist but so is China, it’s always strange how much screaming about racism in the USA but China is 1000x worse. But we keep buying their products and sending production jobs over there. If you wanna stop racism then stop buying from racist countries. But money talks.

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    At least this one is phrasing it in terms of the company being racist instead of the perfidious Chinese, though iirc the comparison is still based on cherrypicking

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        Depends. If it can be deployed in a sarcastic or sardonic way to emphasize how dumb it is, it can be pretty funny and send the right message.

        … but just using it in response without tact is… just more racism. May as well be joining a fist fight at that point.